A NASA panel formed last year to study what the government calls 'unidentified aerial phenomena,' commonly termed UFOs, was due to hold its first public meeting on Wednesday, ahead of a report expected in coming weeks.
Workers pressure wash the logo of NASA on the Vehicle Assembly Building before SpaceX will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
The focus of Wednesday's four-hour public session "is to hold final deliberations before the agency's independent study team publishes a report this summer," NASA said in announcing the meeting. The parallel NASA and Pentagon efforts - both undertaken with some semblance of public scrutiny - highlight a turning point for the government after decades spent deflecting, debunking and discrediting sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, dating back to the 1940s.
"There is no evidence UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin," NASA said in announcing the panel's formation last June.
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